Author: Edward J. Mishan
Publisher: Unwin Hyman
Keywords: welfare, social, efficiency, economic
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 1981-07
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0043303153
ISBN-13: 9780043303153

First published in 1981, Professor Mishan’s Economic Efficiency and Social Welfare: Selected Essays on Fundamental Aspects of the Economic Theory of Social Welfare is a collection of 22 pioneering essays written while the author was teaching at the London School of Economics and chosen to indicate landmarks in the development of his own thought. Professor Mishan, who also enjoys an international reputation as a popular writer on the impact of modern economic growth on social welfare, is among the foremost authorities in the field of resource allocation, and his influence in his subject area

Author: ed. Peter Wiles
Publisher: Unwin Hyman
Keywords: honor, alec, nove, essays, reform, economy, brink, soviet
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1988-08-01
List price: $170.00
ISBN-10: 0043350631
ISBN-13: 9780043350638

"...a fascinating and stimulating mixture of theoretical and empirical material on the Soviet-type economy."--International Affairs

Author: Rhodes & Williams
Publisher: Unwin Hyman
Keywords: symposia, geomorphology, binghamton, system, fluvial, adjustment
Number of Pages: 382
Published: 1982-01
List price: $80.00
ISBN-10: 0045510598
ISBN-13: 9780045510597

Author: David Sapsford
Publisher: Unwin Hyman
Keywords: economics, market, labour
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1981-03
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0043310834
ISBN-13: 9780043310830

Author: Ian Forbes
Publisher: Unwin Hyman
Keywords: individual, new, marx
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1990-08
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0044454325
ISBN-13: 9780044454328

In this analysis of Marx’s attitude to the puzzle of the individual in history and society, this book challenges received views on the importance of class analysis and the place of a theory of human nature in Marx’s thought. The radical possiblities of individual agency in society are explored within a Maxian framework, without recourse to methodological individualism or rational choice theory and, the "Grandrisse" is used as the basis of this analysis of Marx’s thoughts on the individual. By illustrating the nature of the connections between collective existence and individu

Author: Raphael Salkie
Publisher: Unwin Hyman
Keywords: politics, linguistics, update, chomsky
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 1991-05
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0044455895
ISBN-13: 9780044455899

This is a guide to both Noam Chomsky’s work in linguistics and his politics. It deals with his theory of the structure of language, the "transformational generative grammar", as well as his opposition to the Vietnam War, which he attacked through his work "American Power and the New Mandarins". Salkie also examines the implications that Chomsky’s work has for other fields such as philosophy and psychology and he also describes the main challenges to his position.

Author: C. B. Schedvin
Publisher: Unwin Hyman
Keywords: scientific, industrial, research, council, australia, science, industry, history, shaping
Number of Pages: 374
Published: 1988-02
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0049090364
ISBN-13: 9780049090361